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SUMMARY:Reading Round at Coleraine Library
DESCRIPTION:What is a Reading Round group?  \nReading Round is a unique type of reading group that differs in a number of ways from traditional-style book groups. Each group is run by a published author who has worked for at least two years in the Royal Literary Fund’s Fellowship scheme. Reading Round is funded by the Royal Literary Fund and is free for members to join. \nWhere and When will it happen? \nThe Reading Round group will meet in the Meeting Room at Coleraine Library starting again in September 2022. Provisional dates (28th September 2022 through to 7th June 2023) to be confirmed. \nWhat’s involved? \nEach week the group listens to a different piece\, or pieces\, of writing read aloud by the Group Lector. The piece might be a story or a poem though it might also be a speech\, memoir or piece of narrative non-fiction. The group then discusses the piece(s) at some length to really try to get under the skin of the text: What effects does it have on us as we read? How does it achieve those effects? Guided by a Lector\, the group considers the text in detail\, looking at tone\, choice of words\, viewpoint\, the effect of a certain image or turn of phrase\, and so on. There is no extra reading or ‘homework’ to be done either before or after the sessions. No prior knowledge of the texts is necessary\, or even desirable. All that is required of participants is a willingness to listen\, discuss and be open to new ideas. \nWho will lead the group? \nBernie McGill is the Lector for Reading Round at Coleraine Library. She was Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Queen’s University\, Belfast from 2018 – 2020. Her published work includes novels The Butterfly Cabinet  and The Watch House and the short story collection Sleepwalkers. Her new short story collection This Train is For was published by No Alibis Press in June 2022. \nWhy Reading Round? \nThe broad aim of a Reading Round group is to familiarise its members with some excellent and inspiring writing and – for those who are already keen readers – to introduce them to a wider range of literature than they might have discovered alone. Alongside this aim\, it is hoped that attendance at a Reading Round group will help develop members’ critical thinking skills. As the weeks go by\, group members may well find their reading habits changing: they will almost certainly find themselves noticing more; appreciating why the text has been written as it has; perhaps also becoming aware of how the writer of the text is manipulating their readers. The goal is not to agree or to arrive at a definitive reading of the text under discussion; it is to gain a deeper understanding. For many participants\, the group may also provide a valuable opportunity to meet with other readers in a friendly\, stimulating and relaxed environment. To get a full sense of what it is like to be a Reading Round member\, watch the video on the Royal Literary Fund website: https://www.rlf.org.uk/education/reading-round/ \nHow do I join? \nReading Round is free to join and is for anyone who lives within a comfortable travelling distance of Coleraine Library and who is aged 16+. We are looking for participants from a broad range of backgrounds. We do ask that you can commit to the 30 weeks of weekly meetings. There is a limited number of places\, after which names will be added to a waiting list. To book your place\, please email Bernie McGill at bernie.mcgill@rlfeducation.org.uk and tell us where you heard about Reading Round and why it appeals to you.
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LOCATION:Coleraine Library\, Queen Street\, Coleraine\, BT52 1BE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Week NI Author Panel: John Self hosts Bernie McGill and Wendy Erskine
DESCRIPTION:*This event is now available to view online. \nRenowned international literary critic John Self will host a panel with authors Bernie McGill and Wendy Erskine to discuss their recent short story collections This Train Is For and Dance Move\, and the importance of the short story genre. \nBernie McGill is the author of two novels\, The Watch House\, (2017\, Tinder Press)\, nominated for the Ireland/European Prize for Literature\, and The Butterfly Cabinet\, (2011\, Headline Review)\, and one previous short story collection Sleepwalkers\, (2013\, Whittrick Press)\, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her short fiction has been nominated for numerous awards and in 2008 she won the Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Award in the USA. Her work has been anthologised in award-winning collections including The Long Gaze Back\, The Glass Shore\, Her Other Language\, The Danger & the Glory\, Belfast Stories\, and Female Lines. She has been the recipient of numerous Arts Council of Northern Ireland Awards\, and is a former Writing Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund at the Seamus Heaney Centre\, Queen’s University\, Belfast. She now works as a Lector and Associate Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund\, and offers One-to-one mentoring via the Irish Writers’ Centre. This Train is For was published by No Alibis Press in June 2022. \nWendy Erskine lives in Belfast. Her debut collection\, Sweet Home\, was published by The Stinging Fly Press in Sept 2018 and Picador in 2019\, has been translated into Italian and Arabic and optioned for TV. It won the 2020 Butler Literary Award\, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2019 and longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019. The story ‘Inakeen’ was longlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Prize 2019. Sweet Home was Book of the Year in the Guardian\, The White Review\, Observer\, New Statesman\, and TLS. Wendy’s second collection of stories\, Dance Move\, was published in February 2022. Her work has been published in The Stinging Fly\, Winter Papers\, Female Lines: New Writing from Northern Ireland and Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Faber) and read on BBC Radio 4. \nThis event will be both in person and streamed online. Booking is essential. To book a place in the audience tel. 028 9050 9210 or email: chichester.library@librariesni.org.uk \nTo book a place for the live stream email: events@librariesni.org.uk \nTo download the full programme of events for Book Week NI\, including talks by Serena Terry\, Leesa Harker\, Professor Teresa Cremin\, Colin Bateman\, Rev. Richard Coles\, Donal Ryan\, Steve Cavanagh and Stuart Neville visit Libraries NI.
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LOCATION:Chichester Library\, 109 Salisbury Avenue\, Belfast\, BT15 5EB
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